the holiday season will be here in just a few weeks ... but if you are already decorating and shopping and wrapping and baking treats... i say, 'do it!' - 'you do you' (always). i just really love to embrace each season and love to do things like these (and voting) the day of/in the season. yet, is christmas music playing in our home/car - yes! and am i already starting to look for card designs and gift ideas- yes! but going to a christmas tree market after thanksgiving and decorating and shopping in december- with the people and all the festive things around me- is what i truly love. and one of the things i love to give most is a book (with a message inside).

if you are local to charlotte, north carolina, i recommend shopping small at main street books in davidson - they have the most beautiful books. also, if the book is for your book club, tell them and you will receive 10% off that one. it's an adorable and very friendly shop... i posted the amazon links above, but if you can shop small, i know it would mean so much to the owners / i love to do so.